“You are at your pastoral best when you are not noticed. To keep this vocation healthy requires constant self-negation, getting out of the way. A certain blessed anonymity is inherent in pastoral work. For pastors, being noticed easily develops into wanting to be noticed. May years earlier a pastor friend told me that the pastoral ego ‘has the reek of disease about it, the relentless smell of the self.’” Eugene Peterson
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